Philip Hensher

The things history will do at the bidding of love....

After the success of The Northern Clemency, Philip Hensher brings us the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of the small English town of Handsmouth....

An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges....

A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it’s about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures; and it’s about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned....

In 1922, Christian, a young artist, travels to Weimar to begin his studies at the Bauhaus, where the avant-garde confronts conservative elements around it....

Ten daring stories from the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher....